You have moved into your new house, unpacked the boxes, fixed and rearranged the furniture, hung a couple of things on the walls. Well. You know, or think you already know how you wish your rooms to look yet cannot get in the builder white walls and your old things to that amazing comfy inviting look you have when you’re in the type of the home you acquired?

Just before you panic and true anxiety sets within know you can find more effortless solutions with your fingertips than before. There are decorator magazines, home decorating shows, sites, retailers, great books with very good instructions. Going to model homes again may help. All right, you say, “I find them, I bought them, I visit them, I love them, however how to do it? I don’t know where to start.”

Start with one room you love in a magazine or maybe model home. We’ll call it your own dream room. In case you can go on the model house to think and study the area or the room you’ll get the best results. Ask if you might get pictures from the models too. This will help when you have home while you shop. Take a tape measure and also a spiral notebook along to make notes and also draw sketches. I like the ones having plastic tabs and openings inside.

Let’s start designing by seeing what we like.

Are all of the walls the same color and also the ceiling also? What color(s) for the room? Write this along. Is there a chair rail or maybe decorative molding at the ceiling, wall covering or perhaps faux artwork? What is on the floor? Will there be tile, real wood, carpet, rugs? What color and texture and pattern? Is the area rug braided or maybe a Local rug or perhaps a contemporary design diagonally set partly under one of the chairs and sofa?

What style is the furniture? Would it be all the matching set? Do all of the woods complement? Probably the sofa and also club chairs are the same style and wood finish but the chairs have a patterned upholstery and also the sofa is a solid or striped fabric. Write this down.

How is the furniture arranged? Does the sofa sit in the middle of the room separating the conversation area from the game table, or is the furniture pushed facing the walls? Draw a little floor plan so you won’t forget when you get home.

The windows. Are there blinds, shutters, a valence or maybe draperies? Are the rods big or small, wood or even metal having huge finials? Make a note of it. In case you will find panels from both sides of the window, do they go completely to the floor? What color could they be? Do they match the walls or are they the same material as the toss pillows on the sofa? Is it the drapery hold back that catches your vision? You have to consider the exposure and also privacy out your windows if you make your final window treatment choice.

The pizzazz will be the accessories. This is usually what lots of people like most about the model homes or magazine pictures which encourage all of them. The details, the tiny things many of us like to gather and buy whenever we shop. This is what pulls the room together and provides the idea your personality. In the room you love, what kind of lamps are there? Is there an area to keep the things you need to put away? Are there various stuff grouped on the coffee table? What sizes could they be? Is there something pretty tall, a huge round platter set over a stand and a box all grouped along? If you can find photos on the end tables, how large are they and how does the body style work with everything else in the room?

What is on the walls? Is there one large picture on the sofa or is there an arrangement of black and white photos in different size frames? What color is a matting and how much space on the photo on the frame? Particulars, details, specifics. Draw a sketch of the picture arrangement and also the sizes in your notebook.

Best wishes. You have just completed the first task to decorating your own house.

You know what you need, how it goes along and what it’ll look like. You don’t have to hurt your wallet now to make your room. You probably already have the furniture pieces as well as accessories. You might already have the lamps and rug as well. You might just have to repeat and reschedule.

Get started. Go to the paint store and select the color chips you think best match your dream room. Get various trials, color could be misleading and they also could look different dependant upon the light. Take them back to the model house as well as see which ones match the best. Purchase the paint as well as paint the room.

Your window treatment. If you copy your own dream room exactly be sure to have the best privacy as well as exposure factors covered. This is where many people go astray. They think they like shutters and buy them. Then they don’t like them and also ponder just how their dream room went wrong. Your dream room may have been more airy that has a shade and drapery sections on huge wood rods. The wrong window blinds, window shutters or draperies and hardware can be a pricey mistake you possibly won’t change.

Arrange your own furniture for conversation, TV watching, family fun, reading, eating or homework keeping in your mind your dream room. Was all the furniture lined up on one side of the room? Your sofa will be the wrong color plus your chairs need to be redone. That does not suggest you must purchase all new; consider slipcovers. You can purchase them or create them. Be certain your add-ons are things you want around you and they are of a grand plenty of scale on your space. Voila! You’re on your own way to decorating confidence and living in the home that makes your family delighted.